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Early Broadcast Equipment

Postwar Camera Gallery

Postwar Camera tubes

First zoom lens

Iconoscope Cameras

 

RCA TK-20 film camera

 

General Electric PC2 film camera

 

Studio camera from WWJ-TV in Detroit

Courtesy of Chuck Pharis

 

 

Amateur Iconoscope camera built by CFRN, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (ca (ca 1947-48)

Orthicon/Image Orthicon Cameras

 

Dumont camera

This camera can be seen in this American Televcasting Corp. brochure

From ad in Television, January 1946

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

 

 

RCA TK-10 prototype

From ad in Television, January 1946

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

 

RCA TK-31

 

 

General Electric PC-4

 

Polarad Image Orthicon Camera (1940s)

 

50s General Electric camera

 

RCA TK-60

 

 

DuMont 124

Vidicon Cameras

Article about Vidicon camera in railroad application

 

Dage Industrial Cameras

 

 

RCA TV Eye

 

GPL ruggedized vidicon camera

 

 

FTL vidicon camera

 

 

Kay-Lab vidicon camera chain

 

 

Kay-Lab industrial vidicon camera

 

Polarad vidicon camera

 

Coin-operated TV camera

 

RCA Prototype Vidicon Camera

 

 

AT & T Picturephone

 

Other Monochrome Cameras

 

Diamond Power Image Dissector Camera

 

 

Thomson-CSF Microcam

1946 Farnsworth ad

1946 DuMont ad

Broadcasting & Telecasting, October 7, 1946